CVE-2026-3988

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-407

7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.5 before 18.8.7, 18.9 before 18.9.3, and 18.10 before 18.10.1 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service by making the GitLab instance unresponsive due to improper input validation in GraphQL request processing.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

GitLab

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/03/25/patch-release-gitlab-18-10-1-released/Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/593140
https://hackerone.com/reports/3597342